<<<<OMG These moobs>>>>>>>

I'm sorry you're feeling this way: I sympathize, though from an oblique angle. (I'm female, flat up top post-mastectomies.)

Do you feel that you still have some bodyfat to lose? At 6', 201, you're at 27.3 BMI, which theoretically would be around the middle of the overweight range. However, you don't clearly say how long you've been lifting (though the implication seems to be it would be just those 18 months?). Men who have higher muscle mass, but not bodybuilder level, can be at a healthy weight at BMI 27.3; and that's extra true if built skeletally in a broad way (wider shoulders, pelvic spacing, and that sort of thing) because a wider frame requires more muscle and other tissue to wrap it, requiring higher body weight.

My point is this: Different people carry their body fat in different places. It sounds like you carry some in your chest, and that it has somewhat depleted as you've lost weight, getting softer and maybe (apologies for this word) floppier.

Here's a thing that happens for a lot of people during weight loss (for sure did for me): As fat starts to deplete, but it isn't fully depleted yet, there's enough fat weight distributed in a given area that it conspires with gravity to keep skin in that area stretched. Those fat areas - for many people it's the belly - can become kind of like a water balloon partially full of water (no air), so floppy, when they used to be held firmer by the fat in that area.

Once enough fat depletes from an area like that, so that the gravitational effect is reduced, *then* the skin can *start* to shrink. The skin shrinkage itself then can be a slow process. My loose skin (various body areas) kept shrinking at least into year 2 of maintaining a healthy weight, and maybe beyond (gets hard to tell after a certain point).

A lot of us find we look worse part way to goal weight (in terms of loose skin or floppy areas) than we will at goal weight; and worse at goal weight than we'll look further down the road in maintenance. (I sure did.)

So, if you have more fat to lose, you may find that things improve, with persistence, time, and patience. I know that's frustrating, believe me.

I'm a great believer in a "love the body you're in" philosophy: The body can do amazing things, and there's no enjoying life without a body to do it in. However, if truly dissatisfied in profound ways well after reaching goal weight, surgical help is an option, though an expensive one. As someone who knows other women - other breast cancer survivors - who've had much more radical chest reconstruction, the visual results can be very, very good. Reduction surgery in a man would be much less intrusive than that, seem likely to have excellent outcomes.

TL; DR: If you have more fat to lose, you may still see major improvements as you do so, and after you give skin time to shrink in the first months of maintenance at goal. If still unhappy at that point, talk with your doctor.

Wishing you good outcomes, long-term!